The Fall of the TowersCome and enter Samuel Delany's tomorow, in this trilogy of high adventure, with acrobats and urchins, criminals and courtiers, fishermen and factory-workers, madmen and mind-readers, dwarves and ducheses, giants and geniuses, merchants and mathematicians, soldiers and scholars, pirates and poets, and a gallery of aliens who fly, crawl, burrow, or swim. |
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... side street and collided with the old minister . A moment later , making profuse apologies , he backed away , ducking his head , his hands behind his back . When the drunk returned to the side street , his weaving ceased , his hand came ...
... side street and collided with the old minister . A moment later , making profuse apologies , he backed away , ducking his head , his hands behind his back . When the drunk returned to the side street , his weaving ceased , his hand came ...
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... side . At the head of the room the young King sat on a slightly raised chair . On the other side sat Jon , Petra , Arkor , Catham , and Clea . " Now what is it you want to say ? " The Duchess nodded to Arkor who stood up and faced the ...
... side . At the head of the room the young King sat on a slightly raised chair . On the other side sat Jon , Petra , Arkor , Catham , and Clea . " Now what is it you want to say ? " The Duchess nodded to Arkor who stood up and faced the ...
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... side , and the skin was loose - like velvet . The cracked pane in the window made a jagged line of shadow over the floorboards , up the side of the bed , across the crumpled sheets , a serpent of shadow on her stomach . Her lips were ...
... side , and the skin was loose - like velvet . The cracked pane in the window made a jagged line of shadow over the floorboards , up the side of the bed , across the crumpled sheets , a serpent of shadow on her stomach . Her lips were ...
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